A rapidly increasing reliance on cloud-based infrastructure has seen business analytics stalwart SAS ramp up its services, deployment, capacity, and product portfolio development, according to company executive vice president and chief marketing officer Jim Davis.

NetApp, together with Fujitsu, recently installed a range of flash storage arrays in the National Computational Infrastructure's supercomputer, Raijin, boosting its total raw storage capacity to 44 petabytes.

Although the company has the systems architecture you might expect from a 230,000-employee, US$60bn business, it's not immune to mundane problems like the lack of IT capacity and the headache of managing data centres and hardware.